The last ivory hunter: The saga of Wally Johnson - Peter Hathaway Capstick (First edition)

A chance meeting around a safari campfire on the banks of the Mupamadazi River leads to this grand tale of African adventure by Peter Capstick, the foremost hunting author of our time. Wally Johnson spent half a century in Mozambique hunting white golf - ivory. Most men died at this hazardous trade. He's the last one able to tell his story.

In hours of conversations by mopane fires in the African bush, Wally described his career - how he survived the massive bite Gaboon viper, buffalo gorings, floods, disease, and most dangerous of all, gold fever. He bluffed down 200 armed poachers almost single-handedly, and survived rocket attacks from communist revolutionaries during the Mozambique's plunge into chaos in 1975. In Botswana, at age 63, Wally continued his career. Though the great tuskers have largely gone and most of Wally's colleagues are dead, Wally has survived. His words are rugged testimony to an Africa that is now a distant dream.